Adventure

It’s not flying, it’s falling with style

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Some people jump out of a plane for their birthdays. Others during a midlife crisis...

A quest for honest heroes

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If you were going to go to war over a mountain, Cerro Torre would be the one to do it for...

Kidnapped in Caracas

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Three, two, one, bang. It is that fast. Traveling involuntarily through the most contrasting realities. Traveling through the opposite side of my life in my own country. Just when distraction hit me, just in one fearless blink and smile in the middle of the night, I ...

A gentle hand: Boulderite Jan Mitchell makes a difference in Africa

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Jan Mitchell is going to have to buy a donkey for a family in Ghana. It’s good news. Two years ago, she gave the family a bull to replace one that died after rocks were thrown at it to chase it out of a garden. She promised that if, when she returned, the bull was ...

No man overboard

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The issues veterans face are — in some ways — as big and unmanageable as the Colorado River running through Cataract Canyon this spring. At up to 58,000 cubic feet per second, it was flipping so many rafts that passengers in a 12-foot paddleboat just had to expect to...

Nature’s already cool

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A giant picture of a 9-year-old kid is projected onto the east wall of Denver’s flagship REI. He’s wearing a backwards hat, a popped...

Big Air

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There are lots of jumps that can rival the buildings in downtown Denver for height — but not many that are actually right next to those buildings...

There are some special people here

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If you want to be on the silver screen you move to Los Angeles, and if you want to break into musical theater you head to New York City...

BIFF: Get over your Everest ennui

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A great plotline is nothing without a character — one that generates an emotional investment, one we continue to care about long after the final pages of a book or final frames of film. The stories of the men — and in this case, one particular woman — who went to ...

Boulder hosts national climbing championship

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A rowdy throng of spectators crowded into Boulder’s Movement Climbing and Fitness on Saturday night to watch Sasha Digiulian and Magnus Midtbø win the 2011 Sport Climbing Series National Championship, the precursor to the International Federation of Sport Climbing ...

A little bit of Canada comes to Colorado

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Film festivals tend to stay put. Imagine how confusing it would be if the Cannes Film Festival was suddenly relocated to Bordeaux? What if...

Swiss sailing: A bike trip through the Alps, sans Facebook

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Shunning social media since the beginning of this year has been an interesting experiment, the effects of which are definitely exacerbated by living in the bubble known as Boulder...